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Tointon Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$45k
Granted FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202024.

Youth Development$1.0MEducation$148kCrime & Legal$35kPhilanthropy$33kArts & Culture$24kHealth$20kHuman Services$12kCommunity Improvement$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$40k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JOBS OF HOPE$7,500
WELD COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$6,500
AIMS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$5,000
SUCCESS FOUNDATION$5,000
GREELEY PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA$5,000
CO HUMANITIES HIGH PLAINS CHAUTAUQUA$2,500
MICHEAL RAY LEE FOUNDATION$2,500
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT$2,000
FRIENDS OF BASEBALL$1,500
FRIENDS OF A WOMAN'S PLACE INC$1,000
60 RIDE$1,000
ACE SCHOLARSHIPS$1,000
GREELEY BLUES JAM$1,000
MEALS ON WHEELS$750
WELD FOOD BANK$750
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%SENIOR RESOURCE SERVICES: $1k → 9%60 RIDE: $1k → 9%60 RIDE: $1k → 9%60 RIDE: $1k → 9%60 RIDE: $1k → 9%MICHEAL RAY LEE FOUNDATION: $3k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

17%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$225k · 18 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +53% since the first grant, against -4% for the ones you funded once.

18 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
15

Total granted

$225k
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
-4%

Still filing today

61%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureEmploymentPhilanthropyHealthOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO FOUNDATION
    2× · 2020–2022 · $65k · revenue +35%
  • JO
    JOBS OF HOPE INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $35k · revenue +169%
  • AC
    AIMS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $30k · revenue +140%

Funded once

  • AW
    ADVENTURE WEST COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
    one grant, 2020 · $1.0M · revenue -4% · 31% of their budget
  • WL
    WELD LEGACY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +175%
  • AF
    AHEARN FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $10k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Aia Colorado

AIA Colorado,is the voice of the architecture profession in Colorado. Through advocacy, leadership development, education and resources for architects, the organization supports architecture professionals in designing a better world where…

2
Colorado Chamber of Commerce Fka Co Assn of Commerce & Industry

The colorado chamber of commerce mission is to enhance the business climate of the state of colorado by promoting a positive legislative and regulatory environment and providing programs and services for its members, economic education,…

3
Colorado Jobs With Justice Inc

Advance workers rights & social justice through building sustained relationships and taking direct action to create concrete change in the lives of working families

Employment
4
Colorado Nonprofit Association

Colorado nonprofit association strengthens colorado's nonprofits through education, connection and advocacy.

Community Improvement
5
Colorado Association of School Executives

Empower colorado education leaders through advocacy, professional learning and networking to deliver on the promise of public education

6
Colorado Community College System Foundation

To support the mission of the colorado community college system by creating partnerships, developing resources, and advocating for the value of a community college education.

Education
7
Colorado Fiscal Institute

To provide timely, credible and accessible analyses of fiscal and economic issues facing colorado to inform public policy debates and promote economic prosperity

Community Improvement
8
Colorado Gives Foundation

We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.

Philanthropy
9
Colorado Press Association

Promote the general interest of daily, weekly, and monthly newspapers and online publications, improve editorials and business methods of daily and weekly newspapers, and advance those newspapers' usefulness and influence in the public…

10
Urban Land Conservancy

Urban land conservancy's mission is to acquire, develop, and/or preserve community assets in urban areas for a variety of community needs especially in high poverty, low-income, underserved, at-risk communities.

Community Improvement
11
Colorado Thrives

Colorado Thrives exists to support Coloradans to achieve economic mobility through access to good jobs.

Community Improvement
12
Colorado Agricultural Leadership Program

To develop leaders that will become a strong, unified voice for agricultural issues.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Weld Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Friends of a Womans Place. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyColorado Grantmaking Founda…Youth Support and Developme…Youth Competitive Sports Cl…Affordable Housing ProvidersCommunity Food JusticeCommunity Arts OrganizationsEnvironmental Advocacy and …
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

04the grantee network

22 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 22 of the 37 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/22
Grantees still filing
15/22
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ADVENTURE WEST COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $1,000,000 · OtherADVENTURE WEST COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA+23 more — $64,500 · Other+23 moreUNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO FOUNDATION — $65,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY …AIMS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $30,000 · EducationAIMS COMMUN…The Success Foundation Serving Greeley-Evans Schools Inc — $27,200 · EducationThe Success…COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $10,000 · EducationCOLORADO ST…+1 more — $4,000 · EducationJOBS OF HOPE INC — $35,000 · EmploymentUNITED WAY OF WELD COUNTY INC — $20,000 · PhilanthropyWELD COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $10,500 · PhilanthropyWELD LEGACY FOUNDATION — $20,000 · HealthGREELEY PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC — $5,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY RADIO FOR NORTHERN COLORADO — $5,000 · Arts & CultureGreeley Blues Jam — $2,000 · Arts & CultureSTUDENT RECOVERY PROGRAM INC — $10,000 · Community Improvement
Other$1,064,500Education$136,200Employment$35,000Philanthropy$30,500Health$20,000Arts & Culture$12,000Community Improvement$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetADVENTURE WEST COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $1,000,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO FOUNDATION — $65,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJOBS OF HOPE INC — $35,000 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetAIMS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetThe Success Foundation Serving Greeley-Evans Schools Inc — $27,200 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF WELD COUNTY INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWELD LEGACY FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetWELD COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $10,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Baseball Inc — $6,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF A WOMANS PLACE — $5,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetSENIOR RESOURCE SERVICES — $5,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetGREELEY PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY RADIO FOR NORTHERN COLORADO — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION — $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMICHAEL RAY LEE FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetWELD FOOD BANK — $2,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGreeley Blues Jam — $2,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetWOMEN TO WOMEN INC — $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOLORADO PRESERVATION INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Colorado Gives FoundationCO28.4× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · Weld Community Foundation · The Weld Trust · Wenaas Family Foundation · Otter Cares Foundation AKA OTTERCARES FOUNDATION · United Way of Weld County Inc · Community Foundation of Northern Colorado · Xcel Energy Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Monfort Family Foundation · Carrico Family Foundation · Weld Legacy Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Tointon Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 37 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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